Rates and risk factors associated with hospitalization for pneumonia with ICU admission among adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pneumonia poses a significant burden to the U.S. health-care system. However, there are few data focusing on severe pneumonia, particularly cases of pneumonia associated with specialized care in intensive care units (ICU).

Methods

We used administrative and electronic medical record data from six integrated health care systems to estimate rates of pneumonia hospitalizations with ICU admissions among adults during 2006 through 2010. Pneumonia hospitalization was defined as either a primary discharge diagnosis of pneumonia or a primary discharge diagnosis of sepsis or respiratory failure with a secondary diagnosis of pneumonia in administrative data. ICU admissions were collected from internal electronic medical records from each system. Comorbidities were identifie

SUBMITTER: Storms AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5732529 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature